Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
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Getting to fight at the AT&T Stadium is a huge privilege for me and my career.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
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I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.
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In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.
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Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is a mosaic of visions. To lose even one piece of this mosaic is a loss for all of us.
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It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
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I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
